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backstabbed
verb as in attack indirectly
Example Sentences
“He backstabbed President Trump. If he kept on the Trump train all along, stayed in Florida, supported him, then maybe he would become, eventually, a running mate with President Trump. And like everybody says in ’28.
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi propagandists and foot soldiers repeatedly used similar lies about being “backstabbed” and “betrayed” by “Jews” and “communists” and “socialists” and other supposedly nefarious forces as a way of building and keeping support for their fascist movement and the Holocaust.
“What did she do to Trump the moment she got elected? Completely backstabbed him!”
Journalist Yashar Ali has filed a defamation lawsuit against Los Angeles Magazine one year after the publication ran a nearly 6,000-word feature that he says labeled him as someone who “backstabbed his friends to get ahead” and mischaracterized his journalistic standards.
Eminem taking a knee, as presumably a show of solidarity with Kaepernick, while performing in the Super Bowl, for the league that Blackballed him, in a concert likely orchestrated by someone many say backstabbed him, ain’t the “rebellious” act folks are making it seem to be.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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